Friday, August 17, 2007

Coffee Quilt

I love visiting Heather's blog because, not only does she do cross stitch, she is also a quilter! I too am a quilter and love collecting fabric, patterns, books and gadgets. I read quite a few blogs but Heather's is one of the few that also includes quilting. I love to see what beautiful quilt she has stitched! I kept telling her that I would post a picture of my Coffee Quilt, so here you go Heather :-).

For a number of years I spent the majority of my free time behind my sewing machine stitching quilt tops. About a year ago I returned to the world of cross stitch, entered the world of blogging, and became passionate about exchanges and round robins! So much of my time is spent stitching and visiting local (and not so local) needlework shops. I recently had a brilliant idea...I would go visit one of those "not so local" shops, a mere 3 hours way! I drove to The Stitchery/Needlearts, Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, NH. Yes, it was a long drive but worth the trip.

Although I have not abandon my machine it does get a lot more rest these days :-). While attend a quilt show in NJ, I noticed a great "Coffee" quilt displayed in a vendor's booth. I did what any true coffee lover would do...I rushed in, scooped up the last quilt kit, and paid for it~all in under 1 minute! Not a very difficult design at all, I pieced it in no time and sent it off to be machine quilted. No, I do not hand (or machine) quilt my tops. No time for that, my WIP list is much too long.

I am happy to say that my Coffee Quilt is hanging in my Vermont Kitchen. I should point out that my Vermont kitchen is in my VT house. One wonderful visitor to my blog read "my Vermont kitchen" and thought that I had more than one kitchen in my CT house (her comment made me laugh).

I am looking to post an online review of a Vermont Quilt Shop so if you know of a website please let me know~

That is a beautiful quilt. I keep thinking I will have the time to start a quilt, and I have tons of material waiting to be used.My daughter wants me to make one from the bridesmaids dresses she has worn and her wedding dress. I can't decide how to do it exactly, I'm thinking some sort of blocks and the just tying it instead of having it quilted since it will be all satin. What do you think?

Thanks for visiting my blog. I've loved looking through yours. I absolutely love your coffee quilt. Heather is a good friend and has re-introduced me to cross-stitching. I used to cross-stitch years ago, but raising 6 kids limited me doing it much for awhile. Alot has changed, I've found. I used to just stitch on aida cloth and Heather introduced me to Linen which is a whole new experience for me but I really like how it looks. I can see myself really getting into it again because I really enjoy it and I've loved seeing stitcher's blogs and all your beautiful work, thanks to Heather.